100,000 Witness Nation's Annual Football Classic.

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Accession NumberPA76-1/15621.2Alternative Title100,000 Witness Nation's Annual Football Classic.Datecirca 1953Decade1953SubjectFootball Texas DallasRenderings Texas DallasStadiums Texas DallasGeneral NotesPlate on rendering reads: "For motor no. 28.05.000 A. ILG Electric Ventilating Co., Chicago, U.S.A."This is photograph taken of an artistic rendering of a possible new look proposed for the Cotton Bowl. The caption under rendering reads: "100,000 Witness Nation's Annual Football Classic. 'The Cotton Bowl at Dallas, Texas, was the scene of the nation's most thrilling football classic. The climaxed a spectacular New Year's Carnival, including the famous Texas Gold Cup college mile relay, in which twenty of the leading colleges entered picked teams'.. this could well be the lead in all of the nation's newspapers the day after New Year's. With the proper promotion and attractions, Dallas can equal and surpass the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl. With five mile million sports-loving people within a radius of 500 miles, Dallas has more to draw on than either of the other two events. This Sahula-Dycke visual gives just an idea of how the new stadium might appear."Physical Description1 photographic negative : black and white ; 4 x 5 in.

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Rights HolderDallas Public Library Dallas History and Archives Division, Dallas Public Library, Dallas, Tex. 2023 Permission is granted to students and teachers to download images for classroom use. All other uses require permission. Contact Dallas History and Archives Division.

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